Franconia Mennonite School - Laureate Yearbook (Souderton, PA)

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n 4 I Pruncupal s Message Dear Graduates lt us partly wuth reluctance that we see you preparung to leave the famuluar rooms of Franconua Mennonute School Some of you have been students un our school sunce uts charter year All ten of you constutute the second tenth grade class to graduate You have been school leaders both un the classroom and un extracurrucular actuvutues Your cooperatuon and Chrustuan school spurut have been an unspuratuon to your teachers and a lastung contrubutuon to your school Our reluctance to see you leave us however us overruled by our desure to see you reachung out to other opportunutues We hope the challenge of new lands to conquer has become more clear to you durung thus school year As those who have been your teachers durung thus and prevuous school terms we have trued to lead you toward the udeals ot Chrust and unto an apprecuatuon of Buble standards for happy luvung lf each ot your luves us commutted to God and Hus plan we do not tear that the tests of years to come wull turn your paths from vuctoruous Chrustuan wutnessung And so as you Launch Out Into the Deep we pray duvune guudance on your course and send wuth you our strong encouragement to place full trust un the Pulot who has never fauled RICHARD DETWEILER Franconua Mennonute School Faculty Betty Detweuler Furst Grade Attended Eastern Mennonute l946 47 47 48 Teachung Experuence Franconua nute School l948 49 49 50 Edna Detweuler Second Grade Attended Eastern Mennonute 1947 48 48 49 Teachung Experuence Franconua nute School l949 50 Betty Clemmer Thurd Grade Attended Eastern Mennonute l945 46 46 47 Goshen College Sum College Menno College Menno College Teachung Experuence Franconua Menno nute School l947 48 48 49 49 50 Beulah Landus Fourth and Futth Grades Attended Mullersvulle State Teachers Col lege l945 46 Summer Sessuon l948 Goshen College l946 47 Teachung Experuence Francoma Menno nute School l947 48 49 50 Locust Grove Mennonute School l948 49 Ybor Cuty Summer School l949 Elsue Petersheum Fufth and Suxth Grades Attended Eastern Mennonute College l945 46 46 47 47 48 Teachung Experuence Franconua Menno nute School l949 50 Ava Rohrer Horst Seventh to Tenth Grades B S un Educatuon Maduson College l94l Attended Ohuo State Unuversuty Summer Sessuon l942 Teachung Experuence Eastern Mennonute College l94O I946 Goshen College Summer Sessuon l 945 Part tume l948 49 Franconua Mennonute School l949 50 Elam Hertzler Seventh to Tenth Grades Attended Eastern Mennonute College l946 47 47 48 Teachung Experuence Eastern Mennonute College Part tume l947 48 Franconua Mennonute School l948 49 49 50 Ruchard Detweuler Seventh to Tenth Grades 1949 Teaching Experuence Franconua Menno nute School l949 50 Wulmer Landus Danboro Mennonute School Furst to Nunth Grades BS un Educatuon Goshen College l935 M S un Educatuon Unuversuty of Pennsyl vanua l939 Teachung Experuence Dublun Grade School l932 33 33 34 Towamencun Junuor Hugh School l935 36 36 37 Lower Salford Townshup School l937 38 38 39 39 40 40 4l Hesston Junuor College and Buble School 194142 42 43 43 44 Hulltown Townshup Hugh School Agruculture Dept I944 45 Danboro Mennonute School l948 49 49 50 I I I I II ll . ' ' ' I I l 1 1 f 1 h 1 4' I ' - . 1 I h - 1 3 - - 1 1 , . - Z ' - . ' ' ' ' - . ' ' T ' . l 1 ' - - ' I - . ' . - 1 ' I ' - 7 . , - I ' I 1 ' , , . mer 595,550,151 I947-49' A,B. un Buble, Eastern Mennonute College, ' 1 - 1 - 1 - - . 1 ' . . I - , . . 1 1 ' I ' 1 I ' ' . . . - ' - ' ' A I I I I ' . ' Q . - v 1 ' I - I 7 I ' 1 - . ' . ' ' ' . . . . 4 ' ' - U 1 - 1 - 1 I 1 ' . ' 5 T 5 ' ' . ' 5 ' 5. ' 5 1 2 - 1 -D 1 I ' ' ' I ' - 1 .1 - 2 . . A l , A A . 1 . 1 ' I I - . , . 12

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School Board The Board of Trustees of the Franconua Mennonute Day School Assocua tuon us composed of seven members two of whom represent the branch school at Danboro The Board members are elected by the Assocuatuon and are therefore the servants of the Assocuatuon Regular Board meetungs are held once a month at whuch tume the regular as well as specual busuness of the schools us attended to Also present at the meetungs are the Reluguous Welfare Commuttee and the pruncupal Sometumes when some especually weughty problems are up for consuderatuon the meetungs become rather lengthy necessutatung the burnung of some mudnught oul When you stop to thunk that your Board trues to represent approxumately ISO famulues endeavors to provude the best possuble nurture for the souls of 280 chuldren struves to meet state requurements wherever possuble not to mentuon theur accountabuluty before God you begun to realuze the great responsubuluty that rests upon theur shoulders Thus us not wrutten to solucut your puty or sympathy but to remund you that you are labourers together wuth the Board un prayer Are YOU prayung for the Board members? To many the exustence of the Chrustuan Day School seems unnecessary sunce the state has been provudung educatuonal faculutues for our chuldren But ut us the growung convuctuon of many Chrustuans that the uncreasung tendency of the state school us away from God and the sumple gospel of our Lord Jesus Chrust Thus us the reason for the exustence of the Franconua Mennonute School May uts unfluence and testumony always be for the glory of God and the salvatuon of souls EARL R DELP Message to the Graduates Dear Graduates Congratulatuons to each of you on reachung the goal toward whuch you have been struvung You wull fund thus goal only a steppung stone to hugher fuelds of servuce Our school has endeavored to promote Buble study to nurture fauth un God and un the Buble as the unerrant Word of God to develop Chrustuan character to foster a mussuonary zeal and a realuzatuon of world needs Our aum has been to arm you strongly wuth the Word and Spurut of God agaunst the days of truals and temptatuons whuch are sure to come as you go out un a world that us un darkness and sun If you have taken advantage of the spurutual opportunutues and have fully yuelded your lufe to the Lord you can go forward wuth courage and confudence and wuthout fear of defeat for Jesus saud Lo I am wuth you alway even unto the end of the world As you leave us we commend you to God and to the precuous Dromuses un Hus Word Guve I-Ium furst place un your lufe Spend much tume un prayer and Buble readuna vour only source of real uoy and spurutual power and He wull lead you step by step to hugher fuelds of servuce as you are wullung to follow Hum ROBERT SOUDER Chaurman IDENTIFICATION OF PICTURE Furst Row Delp Earl Sauder Robert Derstune Abram Second Row Mevers Charles Godshall Paul Board members not present for group pucture I-lustand Paul Ruttenhouse Jacob 11 1 ' 1 I , . 1 11 - - - 11 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 I , . 1 I - 11 - 11 1 1 1 ' I I ' I L: C2 C4- 1 1 I 1 I I - 1 , I u - 3 1 I 1 -

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